[HTML][HTML] Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group offers evidence-informed guidance to conduct rapid reviews

C Garritty, G Gartlehner, B Nussbaumer-Streit… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives To develop methods guidance to support the conduct of rapid reviews (RRs)
produced within Cochrane and beyond, in response to requests for timely evidence …

Contributing factors to personal protective equipment shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic

J Cohen, Y van der Meulen Rodgers - Preventive medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates the forces that contributed to severe shortages in personal protective
equipment in the US during the COVID-19 crisis. Problems from a dysfunctional costing …

Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff

JH Verbeek, B Rajamaki, S Ijaz… - Cochrane database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background In epidemics of highly infectious diseases, such as Ebola, severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS), or coronavirus (COVID‐19), healthcare workers (HCW) are at …

Heat stress and PPE during COVID-19: impact on healthcare workers' performance, safety and well-being in NHS settings

SL Davey, BJ Lee, T Robbins, H Randeva… - Journal of hospital …, 2021 - Elsevier
Personal protective equipment (PPE) can potentiate heat stress, which may have a negative
impact on the wearer's performance, safety and well-being. In view of this, a survey was …

[HTML][HTML] Limiting factors for wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) in a health care environment evaluated in a randomised study

M Loibner, S Hagauer, G Schwantzer, A Berghold… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Pandemics and re-emerging diseases put pressure on the health care system to prepare for
patient care and sample logistics requiring enhanced personnel protective equipment (PPE) …

Key ingredients and recycling strategy of personal protective equipment (PPE): Towards sustainable solution for the COVID-19 like pandemics

SS Siwal, G Chaudhary, AK Saini, H Kaur… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the complications of plastic trash management and
disposal. The current situation of living in fear of transmission of the COVID-19 virus has …

Personal protective equipment and improving compliance among healthcare workers in high-risk settings

H Honda, K Iwata - Current opinion in infectious diseases, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Personal protective equipment and improving compliance among... : Current Opinion in
Infectious Diseases Personal protective equipment and improving compliance among …

[HTML][HTML] What have we learnt about the sourcing of personal protective equipment during pandemics? Leadership and management in healthcare supply chain …

S Best, SJ Williams - Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic there have been much publicised
shortages in Personal Protective Equipment for frontline health care workers, from masks to …

Personal protective equipment during COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative review on technical aspects

S Saran, M Gurjar, AK Baronia, A Lohiya… - Expert review of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The current pandemic of novel Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has
created a significant shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) in many countries of …

[PDF][PDF] Developing PRISMA-RR, a reporting guideline for rapid reviews of primary studies (Protocol)

A Stevens, C Garritty, M Hersi, D Moher - Equator Network, 2018 - equator-network.org
Systematic reviews are known to be the best evidence upon which to make healthcare
decisions, but can take years to complete (1). Rapid reviews have emerged as accelerated …